Saturday, July 7, 2012

If you plan to do a bit of shopping at Tesco Mutiara Damansara (the one adjacent to The Curve), make sure you chuck some old newspapers into your shopping bag.

Who knows, you may take a fancy at some china or glassware. They do stock up on decently-priced nice pieces there. What they don't have is decently-mannered frontliners.

The outlet is customer-unfriendly in more ways than one and I am saying this out of experience as a regular patron. I have been frequenting this place from Day One by virtue of my staying in the neighbourhood.

If Tesco truly want to maintain the goodwill of their customers, they will need to give their frontline staff a refresher course in customer relations.

Acid-tongued tarts should not be allowed to serve people who come to spend their hard-earned money at your store, Tesco. If you can't live up to the saying 'customer is king', you have no business running a business.

I have had two unpleasant encounters with two Tesco staff in just as many months and my patience is wearing thin, to the point of not wanting to patronise the place any more.

I'd rather spend a few ringgit more and be treated with dignity elsewhere - we do have choices, Tesco - than be berated by constipated faces who have forgotten what a smile is.

Last month I bought some mangoes and bananas. After hunting high and low for plastic bags (the off-white, rolled, tear-off kind that they place at certain shelves) and not finding any, I brought the fruits, loose, to the weighing station.

What really irked me was that she had pre-prepared a pile of such bags, already rolled open and neatly placed by the side of the weighing machine. Why the need to berate me? Why not just plonk the damn fruits into the bags and be done with it? That was what the already- opened bags was for, right?

Perhaps because this tudung-ed makcik clad in slightly worn clothing looked unsophisticated (cleaner/maid came to mind), she was a convenient target. I doubt if the worker would do the same to a well-dressed Ahso or foreigner.

Earlier this week I had another run-in, this time with a cashier. I spied some nice bowls and plates and decided to buy them, so I loaded about 15 pieces into a cart and made my way to a cashier.

Tesco kurang ajar in Penang refused to compensate my sister who tripped on a faulty travellator and broke her ankle in two parts.If you write about them they woukd threaten to sue and have already won damages from a Thai journalist.

I seldom shop at Tesco here in JB, so cannot comment about their service. But may I suggest that you drop them an email via their website to tell them your story. If they are responsible people (as per their tagline, Because We Care), then should be replying to you.

I did such a thing with Pizza Hut and the very next day received a phone call apology from their area manager.

Tesco Extra Ampang has the same problem of rude cashiers. And the Security Guards at the palang besi otomatik for the entrance to the Supermarket cannot be more stupid.. Saturday is a no plastic (unless paid for) day, right? So, people come in with bags, half empty or empty, right? The pak gad will stop them and ikat their bags with those plastic rings sebab taknak orang "curi" barang.... errr.... bangang ke apa? Rasa nak langgar je dengan trolley..

Its been a while since I have been able to read posts and here you've posted a topic close to heart. Rudeness of frontliners....

Permit me to share my experience... a month ago, out of desparation for a quick breakfast before i heavy meeting, i went to McDs at Sentral Station. WHile getting a refill of coffee to take with me for my meeting, the found that the thermos at their refill counter was not pouring properly. Unfamiliar with that thermos, i unscrewed the cap... and up came the lady who cleans up the tables and curtly tells me off that that is not it should be done and was babbling about being "tak pandai guna" .... i told her off and said, if u want to help, do help but I as a customer do not like the tone nor the things u said.

I shall not frequent that outlet or a McD even if my life depended on it.

by the way, Tesco pernah double charge my mum and me on 2 separate occassions, so must always becareful to examine ur receipt before u leave the counter, if not they accuse u trying to cheat them grrrrrrrrr

salam,nice write up and comments. many work as frontliners not they want to but forced to. Malaysians are courteous but common sense and applied intelligence are sometimes not very common. lack of thank you after taking our payment is not uncommon, let alone smile or looking at our eyes. may be some feel secure by the tagline "goods sold are not returnable" thingy... no matter how bad my service is, you just have to pay me ladies haha��. I have make peace with them...if they don't smile or say thank you or rude... i just walk away and put in my mind... maybe they are having bad day or having pre-menstrual symptoms ( if male... maybe his jean is too tight thus squeezing his 'brain' haha)

Few weeks ago I saw an update status on my friend's facebook sounds more or less like this:

"Tesco is cheating. Price on the rack (or product) on display is not the same when scan for payment!"

Okay. I read it one glance.

I like to do my groceries shopping on the weekends (friday/saturday/public holiday) because Tesco opens until 0100 hours, and there will be less people doing their groceries shopping during that hours. So today, as usual I asked one of my friends accompany me to the Tesco Shah Alam.

While parking I told her my opinion on how I like to come over the weekends because the above reason. She then told me that she noticed that Tesco prices over the weekends is more expensive compared to weekdays; which of course, to me doesn't make any sense!

The conversation ends there, and we started our shopping. There were few items on promotion as usual..

What best was, I saw the instant campbell soup on promotion rack in the red tag MYR 3.79 (a box of 3 sachets). Then I went strolling every lane, I saw the same damn exact instant campbell soup on the other rack white tag MYR 3.29. And so I decided to took 2 box, and see what is going to happen. (I snap a picture of it on my blackberry)

When comes to pay, it was MYR 3.79. I told the cashier I saw it was MYR 3.29. I show her the picture I snapped. So she call her supervisor. Of course, as expected the supervisor ask one of the boy to run get the tag. The boy ran and bring the red tag promotion of MYR 3.79. The supervisor said I was wrong. I show her the picture again and I started to tell her that I am very much concern on my consumer rights. Then I told her I'll bring the boy over, so I walked with that boy to the place I saw the tag MYR 3.29, the boy took that tag to the cashier place again.

I told the supervisor how can this be; promotion price is higher than the actual price? Instead of answering me, she said that she can only follow one flavour at MYR 3.29 and the other flavour at MYR 3.79. I was laughing to her face and tell her no-way this going to happen because, on the promotion rack, all flavours at MYR 3.79 and same; at the normal rack also all flavours tagged at MYR 3.29! In that soup brand, there were all same price! And I told her to call her superior and I am very glad to highlight this to the consumer rights department! Of course, eventually she gave me the price of MYR 3.29. She didn't even apologise or accepted that was their mistake, worse, she walked away never even look at me and mumbling in Tamil.

There were also a time I saw Maggie in cup in a pack of 6 was more expensive than you buy loose 6 pcs (on the same items and flavours). This happen years ago and I didn't even have to argue because I eventually took the loose one.

I am a marketing person, but when I saw how Tesco playing a dirty tricks like this, I am freaking mad! They do the advert to tell public they were the cheapest and could help in more saving, they were actually getting the return profit through unethical business practise!

Imagine if I didn't complain I would lost MYR 1 on two items, how about people who buy full trolley every months? Of course; most of us in Malaysia just read the promotion and never really register it in head, because there were many things to grab on a visit! I bet you can't be recall every items's price and checking it through everytime!

If you don't do that, you won't be noticing that you're actually loosing actual money you pay at the counter when your head is registering the price is cheaper than outside or on the normal rack!

Please, if you find anything like this, voice up. Didn't mind other people at the next lane looking. The more people looking the more will not be fooled!

Everytime I went to Tesco,they ask me to pack my own goods myself.How can it be?They have to pack for us isn't it?We paid the goods+the profit to Tesco.Why they treat the customer like this?

I have make a claim to the Customer Service Counter but they told me that the customer have to pack their goods together with the Cashier.Wow!how can it be?I asked the officer,why dont you put the 'Self-Service Packing' signboard so that the customer can pack by themselves.If this is happenned,of course I need more discount on that.In conclusion,Tesco is taking advantage on human kindness.They taking advantage on Malaysian people!

I have also forward this claim to Tesco's website.I hope they will do sumthing.For now,I will not going to Tesco anymore.I will go to Giant,Parkson,Cold Storage,Carrefour,etc evendo I have to pay more.

If I have to go to Tesco,I will ask the Cashier to pack my goods before I pay for that.If no,I will go without any purchases.

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